{"id":2203,"date":"2008-01-04T13:04:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T18:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=456"},"modified":"2008-01-04T13:04:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T18:04:53","slug":"online-book-search-the-present-and-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/04\/online-book-search-the-present-and-the-future.html","title":{"rendered":"Online Book Search &#8211; the Present and the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have encountered a few interesting items relating to online, full-text books during the past few days, and thought they would make a good snapshot of where things stand at this time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.campustechnology.com\/articles\/57064_1\/\">Google Book Search : the Good, the Bad &amp; the Ugly<\/a> is an article in the current issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campustechnology.com\/\">Campus Technology<\/a> which gives a great, non-technical overview of what the project is doing, and where it might be going. (found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisnews.org\/node\/28753\">LISNews<\/a> )<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icdar2007.org\/ICDAR2007_KeyNote_LVincent.pdf\">Google Book Search: Document Understanding on a Massive Scale<\/a> (Pdf) is the text of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincent-net.com\/luc\/\">Luc Vincent<\/a>&#8216;s keynote at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icdar2007.org\/\">ICDAR 2007<\/a> conference.  Don&#8217;t read it simply because he heads Googles <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Optical_character_recognition\">Optical Character Recognition (OCR)<\/a> team &#8211; read it because it is fascinating and informative! (posted to <a href=\"http:\/\/dewey.library.nd.edu\/mailing-lists\/ngc4lib\/\">NGC4lib<\/a> by Owen Stephens)<\/li>\n<li>Finally, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/globalpolitician.com\/articledes.asp?ID=3954&amp;cid=12&amp;sid=52\">The Top Inventions of 2008<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/hart.pglaf.org\/\">Michael Hart<\/a> (inventor of the e-book and founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>).  This isn&#8217;t your standard, run-of-the-mill predictions article.  This looks at technology that is just around the corner (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-10784_3-9780794-7.html\">USB 3.0<\/a>, Flash memory capacity, and the number of OCR scanned books) and realizes that we will soon be able to carry around more full-text books on a USB flash drive than exist in most libraries.  Think about how that possibility will change our profession. (found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlham.edu\/~peters\/fos\/2008\/01\/30000-books-on-keychain-75-million.html\">Open Access News<\/a> )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have encountered a few interesting items relating to online, full-text books during the past few days, and thought they would make a good snapshot of where things stand at this time: Google Book Search : the Good, the Bad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/04\/online-book-search-the-present-and-the-future.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2921,2934,2943,2951,2952,2954,2965,2977,2978],"tags":[3269,3695,4599,5350,4687,3696,3697,3652,3698,3699],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-google","category-libraries","category-online-databases","category-online-services","category-open-access","category-search","category-web-design","category-websearch","tag-e-book","tag-flash-memory","tag-founder","tag-google","tag-luc-vincent","tag-michael-hart","tag-ocr","tag-optical-character-recognition","tag-owen-stephens","tag-project-gutenberg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-zx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}